Dr. Jaime Escallon

Dr. Jaime Escallon received his medical degree from the University of El Rosario, Bogotá Colombia in 1974, came to Toronto and trained in the Gallie Program in General Surgery and became Fellow of the Royal College in 1981. He then went back to Colombia to practice General Surgery in an Academic Institution, the Fundacion Santa Fe de Bogota, where he was Head of the Division of General Surgery, Chair of the Department of Surgery and later Chief of Staff. In 2002 he was invited to come back to Toronto and offered the position of Head of General Surgery at the Toronto Western Hospital and Coordinator of the Breast Cancer program at the Marvelle Koffler Center at Mount Sinai Hospital. He was also Co-director of the General Surgery residency program at the University of Toronto and he has been involved with Cancer Care Ontario in the Surgical Oncology Program. Dr. Escallon has served in many editorial boards. His current interests are in education and breast cancer clinical research.